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- ↑ Retail’s Pathways: How Retail Helped Me Plan for the Future, by Savion Castro, Opportunity Nation website, November 3, 2016, retrieved June 3, 2020
- ↑ Familiar face: La Follette grad brings youthful perspective to Madison School Board at critical time, by Scott Girard, The Capital Times, October 30, 2019, retrieved June 2, 2020
- ↑ Remarks by the First Lady at Grassroots Campaign Event for Candidate Mary Burke -- Madison, Wisconsin, delivered at the Overture Center for the Performing Arts, October 7, 2014, Source: White House archives, retrieved June 2, 2020
- ↑ Ending Youth Solitary: Crime & Punishment, Not Crime & Torture, by Savion Castro, The Huffington Post, June 06, 2015, retrieved June 26, 2020
- ↑ Hearing on UW protest bill shows conflicting views on state of campus speech, by Nico Savidge, Wisconsin State Journal, May 12, 2017, retrieved June 10, 2020
- ↑ University of Wisconsin approves free speech policy that punishes student protestors, by Todd Richmond, Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2017, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ↑ University of Wisconsin free speech debate seeks to silence people of color, op-ed by Savion Castro, USA Today Network, June 30, 2017, retrieved June 10, 2020
- ↑ University of Wisconsin approves free speech policy that punishes student protesters, by Todd Richmond, The Chicago Tribune, October 6, 2017, retrieved June 10, 2020
- ↑ Georgia Republican Michael Williams Ran the White House 'Witch Hunt' Playbook Then Promptly Pled Guilty, by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, May 30, 2019, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ↑ GOP lawmaker displayed holstered gun to Democratic aide in area of Capitol where weapons are banned, by Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 23, 2019, retrieved June 10, 2020
- ↑ Lawmaker accused of showing gun in Wisconsin Capitol, The Washington Times, May 23, 2019, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ↑ Savion Castro Unanimously Appointed to School Board, by Nicholas Garton, Madison365, July 23, 2019, retrieved June 2, 2020
- ↑ Familiar face: La Follette grad brings youthful perspective to Madison School Board at critical time, by Scott Girard, The Capital Times, October 30, 2019, retrieved June 2, 2020
- ↑ High school guard fired for telling student not to call him N-word has his job back, by Molly Beck, USA Today, October 22, 2020, retrieved June 10, 2020
- ↑ Savion Castro wins Seat 2 for MMSD School Board, by David Dahmer, Madison365, April 13, 2020, retrieved June 2, 2020